caa a22 4500 475829794 CHVBK 20180406123838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008950915555 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008950915555 Morris Susannah Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London aut Defining the Nonprofit Sector: Some Lessons from History [Elektronische Daten] [Susannah Morris] This article seeks to establish whether the structural-operational definition of the sector, used by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project (JHCNSP), is universal in its applicability. Historical case studies of primary health care and social housing provision in nineteenth-century England demonstrate that the definition cannot accommodate the institutional diversity of earlier periods and does not produce meaningful sectoral distinctions. The structural-operational definition rules out of the sector a significant proportion of nonstatutory, nonprofit maximizing providers. In particular, it excludes the mutual aid organizations, which are widely recognized as important for the development of civil society and which have historically been considered to be key components of the sector. These case studies suggest that the structural-operational definition limits the capacity of the JHCNSP to fulfil its aim of establishing "the factors that promote or retard the sector's development” owing to potential measurement errors and the pattern of development that the project implicitly assumes for the nonprofit sector. International Society for Third-Sector Research, 2000 nonprofit sector theory and definition nationallicence civil society nationallicence mutual aid organizations nationallicence historical research nationallicence comparative research nationallicence Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/1(2000-03-01), 25-43 0957-8765 11:1<25 2000 11 11266 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008950915555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008950915555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morris Susannah Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/1(2000-03-01), 25-43 0957-8765 11:1<25 2000 11 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer